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Iran last week celebrated Siezdahbedar, the 13th day of the Persian New Year, when evil spirits descend upon the cities and city dwellers flee to the countryside to have a picnic lunch beside a running stream. Thus there were no cheering crowds when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin came to Teheran for a week-long state visit. But no difference: Kosygin was more than welcome. After years of nearly total dependence on the West, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is turning his country increasingly toward Russia, his once hostile northern neighbor, seeking friendship, trade and backing for his ambitious industrial development plans...
...hearts than the $300 million Russian steel mill now under construction at Isfahan. Steel mills are status symbols to all developing countries, and Iran has been yearning for one for more than 75 years. The Shah himself broke ground for the plant last month, and the declared purpose of Kosygin's trip was to pay a visit to its site. Obviously, there was not a great deal to see yet, but the aborning mill was a convenient excuse for the Soviet Premier to negotiate in person for even bigger deals...
...meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Party Boss Leo nid Brezhnev arrived in Dresden. The confrontation came only days after a Czechoslovak delegation returned home from Moscow with a Kremlin prom ise that the Russians would not in terfere with Dubcek's drive for "so cialist democratization...
...accompanies every meeting. As they gathered last week in Sofia to review the seven-nation War saw military pact, the Soviet bloc's top bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered the busses...
...recommendation to bring in the nukes would have to be approved by President Johnson, and so far he has given no hint that he would approve. Johnson has reportedly assured Russia's Premier Kosygin that the United States won't use nuclear weapons, but the White House has been deliberately cryptic in publicly quelling the rumors that followed Wheeler's statement. When asked about nukes at a press conference, the President would only say that he "was not aware" of any Pentagon request for them...